Editorial Policy
We publish guides about temporary email while also selling — well, giving away — a temporary email service. That is a conflict of interest, and the honest response is to be explicit about how it is managed rather than to pretend it doesn't exist.
Who writes these guides
The relevant background is operational rather than academic: building and running the inbound mail pipeline, the storage and expiry logic, and the abuse controls behind this service. That is the basis on which the guides describe how disposable inboxes work — it is a description of a system we maintain, not a summary of other people's articles.
Where a guide covers something outside that direct experience — deliverability practice at large senders, for instance, or how commercial validation APIs score addresses — it is described in general terms and not presented as inside knowledge.
How claims about our own service are verified
This is the specific control that matters most, because it is the one we previously failed.
Before publication, every statement a guide makes about FastTempMail's behaviour is checked against the live product — the actual retention window, the actual attachment handling, the actual set of features that exist. Not the roadmap, not what a similar service does, not what would be convenient to claim.
Concretely, that means a guide may not describe a product tier, a retention option, or a feature that a reader cannot go and use immediately. If a link in an article implies a distinct product page, that page must exist and must be distinct.
Why this rule is written down: earlier versions of several guides described FastTempMail as offering multiple inbox tiers — a "secure" option, a 10-minute option, an "anonymous" option — each with a different lifetime. None of them ever existed. There has only ever been one receive-only inbox with a single retention window of about 15 minutes. Those pages have been rewritten and the fabricated tiers removed. This paragraph stays here because a site that asks readers to check for exactly this kind of mismatch should disclose when it produced one.
What we will not publish
- Rankings of competitors. We run a service in this category. Any "best temp mail sites" list we produced would be self-serving, so we publish evaluation criteria instead and let readers apply them to us on the same terms.
- Anonymity or encryption claims we cannot support. No "untraceable", no "zero-log", no "end-to-end encrypted" language for a service that displays mail in a browser and therefore can read it.
- Testimonials or reviews we did not receive. If a quote from a user appears anywhere on this site, a real person sent it. We would rather show none than invent any.
- Advice to circumvent another site's rules. When a website blocks disposable domains, our guidance is to use a permanent address, not to look for a domain that gets through.
- Statistics without a source. If a figure cannot be attributed, it does not go in.
Advertising and independence
This site is supported by advertising, currently through Google AdSense. Advertisers have no input into what we publish, no advance sight of it, and no ability to have content changed or removed. Ad placements are separated from editorial content and are not styled to resemble it.
If we ever publish content that is paid for or that earns a commission, it will be labelled as such in the body of the page itself, not only in a footer disclosure. At the time of writing there is none. What data advertising collects is set out in the Privacy Policy.
Corrections
We would rather be corrected than be wrong quietly.
Send the page URL and what is inaccurate to support@fasttempmail.org. Factual errors that would mislead a reader — wrong retention periods, wrong descriptions of what the service does, wrong security advice — are corrected as a priority.
For a substantive correction, the change is made, the "last updated" date changes, and a note is added to the page explaining what was wrong. Minor fixes such as typos or broken links are made without a note. Corrections are not made silently when the original wording could have led someone to a bad decision.
Review schedule
Guides are reviewed when the service changes in a way that affects what they say, when a reader reports an error, and otherwise on a periodic basis. Because the underlying subject — which domains get blocked, how detection works, what the retention window is — does shift, a guide that has not been touched in a long time is more likely to be stale than one recently edited. The date at the top of each guide is the real last-review date, not an automatically bumped one.
Scope and limits
These guides are general information about how disposable email works. They are not legal advice, not security consulting, and not a substitute for the terms of whatever service you are signing up to. Where a topic has genuine risk attached — account recovery, phishing, regulated accounts — we try to state the risk plainly rather than soften it for the sake of the product.
Questions about this policy: support@fasttempmail.org. More about the service itself is on the about page.